Inviting Expressions of Interest
Assessment and Intervention Australia (AXIA) is a small behaviour support team based across Sydney. We are currently seeking a new behaviour support practitioner to work with us in the Northern Sydney/Northern Beaches areas.
Feedback from our participants, families, and stakeholders indicates that they value our responsiveness, our understanding of individuals and their circumstances, and our resilience, drive, and perseverance. Our values are driven by doing the best for people and getting great outcomes for participants. Our team has extensive experience working in the disability services sector; everyone on our team has worked as a support worker. Our team also has experience as service managers in SIL and community participation programs, as other allied health professionals (Speech Pathology and Occupational Therapy) both in government and non-governmental roles.
We provide all our staff with regular supervision, professional development opportunities (both within the organisation and from external sources). We provide regular group and peer supervision to all our staff.
We are committed to providing our practitioners with manageable caseloads to ensure practitioners can deliver high-quality behaviour support to participants and their families. We provide direct support to all our team to help manage funding and allocations and get the best outcomes for people. We want our clinicians out in the community working with their people, families, teams and providers.
If you are driven to achieve positive outcomes for people with disabilities, want to build capacity within the sector, and enjoy helping others understand complex and challenging situations, we would love to hear from you.
We are looking for people who have experience as behaviour support practitioners, or are new to the role. Some requirements include:
- Be a registered behaviour support practitioner with the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission
- Hold a valid NSW licence
- Hold (or be willing to obtain) an NDIS Worker Screening Check
- Hold (or be willing to obtain) a Working With Children’s Check (WWCC)
- Have experience as a support worker or lived experience in the disability sector
- Be curious, engaged and genuine in the work you do
- Be adaptive to change
- Be committed to ongoing improvement and lifelong learning
- Be an advocate for participants, families, services and systems to get positive outcomes
If the above sounds like you, please provide us with an expression of interest outlining your work experience, relevant qualifications, your passion for the disability sector, and the skills and knowledge you would bring to the role.
If you are not currently registered as a behaviour support practitioner, we would still love to hear from you. We provide a supervision and support program to assist with the registration process for those who are looking to become registered behaviour support practitioners. If this is of interest to you, please let us know (either send
